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The Venus slip dress✨coming this Friday made to order in sizes 6-30🍒
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When you buy your clothes second hand from old men on eBay.
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Solidarity with every garment worker for bravely standing up for their rights.
Due to events in Bangladesh, Western clothing brands are expected to rise in price sharply
Tens of thousands of Bangladeshi textile workers working for major Western brands have gone on strike, demanding their wages be tripled
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They’re so many comments on this TikTok berating the price this artist has set for these hand beaded bags. She is charging $990 and has stated they take 15-17 hours to construct
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Some comments are annoyed because it means poor people can’t afford her artwork and art is only accessible for the Rich, idk her financial status neither does it matter but as a working class designer who’s often told I should lower my prices so people can afford them it fucks/
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Excuse me
@SHEIN_official
can you please tell me why you’ve completely STOLEN my design? Im a small independent SUSTAINABLE business and you’ve completely stolen my hard work?
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Me off because a lot of you think you’re entitled to these crafts. If I lowered my prices to be more affordable I would still be in poverty. I don’t see that same attitude when it comes to paying 2k for the newest trending Chanel
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If you cannot afford the product you want it doesn’t give you the right to demand the maker to labour it for free and that’s the same for all clothing, none of that is made by robots
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I’ve just looked at my phone and this is doing the rounds so this is the artist is called Rachel Ellenbogen and you can buy her gorgeous work here -
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Cannot stress enough that she is wearing significant padding and corseting here. Under that is implants and cosmetic procedures. She has the ‘ideal body type’ because her and her sisters made it that way with trend based body shapes.
unpopular opinion but this is my dream body, the size of her waist compared to the rest of her body is crazy and she still looks skinny, i want that
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@thunderpantsJ
Factor in material costs, research, mock ups and failed tests, designing the piece, the time it takes to reach this expertise, website hosting, photography, listing, marketing, time sourcing materials etc so many invisible costs that get taken for granted.
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I also think we need to bring back home ec and sewing into our curriculums especially considering the climate crises. A lot of people would learn to value labour and their clothing if they had some understanding of garment construction and how to spot quality and fit
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Still can’t get over the ‘poor people deserve nice things too’ and the ‘nice thing’ is a £4 lead lined Shein tank top
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@juliachesky
Ooooh no I checked back a couple hours ago and a lot of the negative comments have been removed and replaced with kind words. I agree, I think this is worth more. I see lots of beaded pieces priced in thousands
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You see how quickly zara lost 7 million followers in regards to that awful campaign? Consumers HAVE a choice, we have power and we can actively choose not to support fast fashion and rally for garment workers rights.
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One thing I’ll say about clothing factories is that they are a mess… I have 2 machines and one sewer in my space and you can deep clean and 2 days letter the dust from fabric fibres will be everywhere again. That Shein ‘factory’ was spotless.
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because you can’t personally afford something, it doesn’t make that something ‘over priced’ or ‘too expensive for what it is’ it’s just out of your price range and affordability
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Polyester does not equate to poor quality. You’re still paying for exquisite design and cutting skills and those garment workers still need to be paid for construction.
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Last summer I tried on a linen shirt in H&M to photograph and re make one ethically for myself (I do this a lot it helps to see drape on my body) I’ve just found the exact shirt brand new with tags on vinted for £3
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Everyone single small/indie ethical brand in my community caters to a wider size range than sh*in does yet we all get dismissed because nobody wants to pay over a tenner for clothes and I’m really tired
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Is this THE dress of my career? Maybe! This is the hysteria dress 🖤🥀🖤
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Thank you for the support 😭 my IG is @ veronicavelveteen my shops currently closed but I’ll be back open in January 💗
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I’m speechless at how dramatic you lot are being about this 🥹
she can go fuck herself lol greedy, lazy and parasitic
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And it’s really hard to have conversations about this because of the tumblr era of feminism that told us that criticising women’s choices was anti feminist. We need to discuss how the patriarchy keeps us insecure about how we look so we spend money adhering to a certain image.
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Coming 26th feb! Sizes 6-30 and custom welcome ❤️ made from nobody’s child deadstock fabric 🖤
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The turning point for me in regards to plastic surgery was my friend in college, her mum had over 20 procedures done. She didn’t see herself as beautiful because her mum had spent thousands to not look like her. Those choices don’t exist in a vacuum.
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‘There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism’ ‘separate the art from the artist’ are just phrases to justify your shitty behaviour and guilt at this point.
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I finally braved cutting into the gorgeous linen, I hope i did it justice 🥹 launching Friday 🪡
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I think the ���mob wife’ trend will be one of significant importance as it seems to be the trend that’s making a lot of women wake up and realise this whole ultra specific niche trend ridiculous.
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Personally never been bothered by a child or a dog at the pub, but have been bothered by a man almost every time !
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This is why I have conversations with grace with indie small brands because unless you come from vast wealth or have investors, inclusive sizing comes with growth and isn’t instant and it sucks
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This also happens often, because there is so much clothing now, I guarantee you will find a FF piece you wanted in shop for sale on vinted and depop 3-6 months later. It is scary how quickly these trends die out and a testament to the volume of unwanted clothing 😵💫
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Your reminder that many Palestinians in Gaza are garment workers who are being exploited for fast fashion. Israel outsources a lot of of its garment production to Gaza where equally skilled workers are paid a LOT less than garment workers in Israel.
The nastiest thing about what the people of Congo are being subjected to is that so much of electronics overconsumption is due to planned obsolescence and repairability being undermined.
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Being a part of the shein documentary on channel 4! I still get messages from strangers who saw my interview and have been inspired to cut down on fast fashion and opt for better. That means the world to me 🖤
EVERYONE INCLUDED :: Please brag to me about a thing you did in 2022 that you’re proud of.
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Ahh ok this isn’t something I wholly agree with but I get the nuance here. When you take care of natural fibres properly they will LAST you forever. And not every natural fibre takes up lots of resources to produce- linen is one and it’s why I use it!
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The last thing I’m gunna say about this whole mess is that it’s frustrating because it is so reductive and dismissive to say your only options to shop is fast fashion or $400 linen dresses. It’s vastly untrue and it dismisses those of us who are fighting to make a change
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glad I was too poor to afford to get the nose job I was told I needed to be desirable. My nose is my nose, I don’t need to love it and I don’t need to hate it and I certainly don’t need to change it to please a patriarchal standard of beauty that ultimately, won’t be good enough
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Why does everyone have a problem with just sitting down
If you don’t have kids, you should:
- Be hitting the gym 5 times per week
- Have a strong social life
- Be working on 3-4 interesting hobbies
- Traveling as much as possible
You have all the time, there is no excuse
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“estimated that enough clothes to fill a garbage truck are burned and sent to a landfill every second.”
Can we all stop this useless ‘resellers are taking clothes away from the poor’ convo for good now?
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If we’re still talking about it im gunna add, as a chronically Ill/disabled person, resellers have made shopping vintage and second hand so much more accessible to me and many others in my community who don’t have the ability to stand and browse clothes for hours.
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I bought the shirt, it would literally be cheaper to buy it secondhand than the paper to draft the pattern for it onto and toile it
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I’ve seen 5 size inclusive indie brands close up this year alone. Dupe culture is killing us, choosing corps over us is killing us. Very soon your only option will be bad fitting plastic clothes everyone else has.
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The most gorgeous custom order that literally still has me on a high a week later. Made using 100% linen in a dusty pink. The factory that mills this linen is run on renewable energy 🪡
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Subcultures in fashion have always been tied into politics and social movements born from marginalised people. Dressing a certain way was intrinsically tied to who you were as a person and your political ideals
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Pockets shouldn’t be in every garment especially in loose dresses and skirts they mess with the drape and fit of the garment and are a sensory nightmare plus usually they don’t even function right
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A lot of people just have no imagination when it comes to shopping for clothes, if it’s not under your nose and convenient and cheap it’s of no interest to you.
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So much of fast fashion is poorly fitted and designed for most bodies, it got me thinking that probably a lot the reasons we might feel ‘bad’ about our bodies is because we’re wearing clothes that don’t fit right, constantly pulling down tops and skirts that have no darts
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This is how Boris Johnson was born actually
If you leave a piece of spam in a tupperware container too long it will form opinions
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Been sewing them for a while and will continue to keep sewing them 🪡
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And just like we predicted,Greta Gerwig and Barbie merch has swarmed the charity shops and second hand market
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This bland sort of nihilism of ‘everyone is exploiting someone somewhere might as well shop at the Bad Shop’ harms people, it harms our planet and it simple isn’t true. Everyone can make an impact without dropping $400 on a linen dress from the ethical shop.
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The tailoring and support of this gown is exquisite, if it’s entirely denim can you imagine how heavy that is and the bones in this corset carrying that weight?
First Look: Da'vine Joy Randolph Wears Custom Gap Gown at the Met Gala Designed by Gap Inc. Creative Director Zac Posen.
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I worked in Primark on women’s wear for 5ish years, it was my job to unload the stock sent from shipping from the factories and prep for the shop floor. WEEKLY we would find dead rodents/ bugs, damp with mould and stinking of chemicals- would go straight to the shop floor
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My friend found this embroidered linen fabric in her shop, shall I get it for dresses for my summer collection!?
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That invisible zip seam though 🥹😍 on the Millie dress! The perfect transitional dress made from 100% cotton 😌
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And I will stand by the fact that this is ableism
people were mad when i said this before but i still stand by the fact that listening to an audiobook is not reading
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We should all be paid enough to afford clothing that’s been made by someone who is also, paid accordingly. I don’t know what to say really if you think £15 for a brand new pair of jeans is reasonable.
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If we dumped our fashion waste on our gorgeous western beaches, where we could see the sheer volume of waste, I think we would be feeling a lot different about resellers and the second hand market
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See what I don’t get it is the folks who embark on a ‘sustainable’ fashion journey and the first thing they do is cull their existing FF wardrobes and replace it all with sustainable brands
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I’ve turned my fabric scraps and offcuts into ready to ship patched bralettes in my bestselling sizes, along with some one off pieces and majorly discounted sample pieces. Dropping on March 31st 7pm gmt
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@katiedimartin
So wildly inaccurate its stupid. God forbid you put the effort in to find small ethical brands who make bomb clothing. We’re out here, but it means you gotta make the effort to look.
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Cupped dresses off the rack never work, there is no such thing as a standard bra size per dress size. I make to order brallette dresses, I start with the bra size and make to order around those measurements.
The cups on these dresses being capped at 32A… but dress sizes going up to Size 18… make it make sense.
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People screaming ‘classist’ at me is truly amazing. I grew up with little money, we still wore clothes though they were hand me downs that went round in a loop with the kids at school in my area. I went to college in the same clothes my mum wore at my age
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Trousers bunching at the crotch, jackets pulling at the shoulders etc, makes us feel like it’s OUR bodies that are the problem when its the damn clothes being cheaply designed and cut to provide maximum profit margins. They don’t care how it feels to wear it.
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Micro trends lack any sort of personality, what they all have in common ‘clean girl’ ‘rock star girlfriend’ ‘tomato girl’ is the capitalist drive to over consume the new bland pieces that grant you a place in that trending look.
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The real funny part of this is how much work Cora has done to advocate for garment workers rights, importance of taking care of your garments for longevity, sustainability and ethics. Not to mention a literal expert on lingerie
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When I worked in vintage I would take the vintage dresses sat unwanted on the rack for over a year and rework them, they would sell in weeks.
a girl made a video where she got a 1970s dress & retooled it to be modern while still keeping the vintage feel & ppl are losing their gd minds. Bc she had the audacity to cut up a dress no one is wearing🙄the internets obsession w preserving unused items as is is unhealthy
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Lmao Shein stole my design, aired my emails I had no CHOICE but to take to socials. Went viral overnight gained over 5k, still get traffic 2 years later and exposed 10k people to the harms of FF and offered an alternative, my business grew and ppl boycotted them
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In fashion school they take you out the back and shoot you if dare try to make anything wearable but they also ask you why your pieces aren’t wearable when you present your ideas!!!
Would love to know why a lot of fashion students present avant-garde and art oriented looks for their graduate show?? I know a lot of investors and buyers attend these fashion shows so I’d assume you’d present something that is more commercial or is it a way for them to stand out
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Do you think the ‘resellers don’t deserve human rights’ squad are going in their highstreet vintage, antique, record, thrift shops and hurling abuse at them for reselling at a profit, orrrrr is that just reserved for young women on the internet?
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@emmawashere
@SHEIN_official
Genuinely shocked at how they have the nerve to keep doing this?
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It’s also not lost on me how many of these trends are linked to having a boyfriend with a certain job- I could go more into this but feels very much like objectifying ourselves as a prop to a fictional man. Always felt weird to me.
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My deadstock supplier found some of the heart jersey I used for my og set that Shein stole and copied off me, caused me to go viral and eventually end up on a channel 4 doc! Best believe I’m reclaiming this set and rereleasing it 👹
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I’ve been making collars out of scraps and my long standing collection of hoarded haberdashery, they’ll be up for sale on the 28th 🖤
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Overconsumption and consumerism is killing the planet, it harms and exploits people in supply chains as well as colonial waste dumping. Not to mention this particular vid feels very infantilising and straight up icky
people always hate on women for enjoying completely benign, harmless little treats like Stanley cups, pumpkin spice lattes, and Taylor Swift meanwhile what are men addicted to? Porn. School shootings. Podcasts.
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This is the dress I made for my nans funeral last week. I’ll be releasing it in the next couple of months for you guys to order- made to measure. It’s made from a very high quality 100% linen in an amazing sludgy grey black.
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I was suspish as hell when I started seeing the ‘mid size’ thing trend because it was full of straight sized thin women wearing brands I KNOW don’t cater above a size 12/14 because they don’t fit me at that size.
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In the world of small ‘sustainable’ fashion brands ‘deadstock’ GURL, we all are registered with that one wholesaler, we know that polyviscose at £3.50 a metre is not deadstock 🥲
Other than the word “literally,” what’s the word people constantly misuse that drives you crazy?
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Anyway I think if you want to develop your personal style you must first have a personality. My morals, politics, special interests, fave films, books, music and art all influence what I wear and how I wear it.
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@eoinmonkey
@Sarah_Woolley
Morally as a vegetarian I am against fishing but not for Stephen, I hope his catch is fruitful and fun was had
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